The End-of-Life Options Act (SB 1950) would authorize medical aid in dying in Illinois. The bill was introduced during the 2025 legislative session by House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel and Assistant Senate Majority Leader Linda Holmes. The legislation is summarized here.
On May 29th, SB 1950 was approved by the House in a 63 to 42 vote. The bill’s next stop is the Senate floor. While the 2025 legislative session has adjourned, the bill remains viable, and we will advocate for it in the fall 2025 veto session.
In a 2023 poll, 71% of likely Illinois voters supported this compassionate legislation, and the majority of Illinois physicians also support this option.
Survey of Illinois Physicians’ Attitudes Toward Medical Aid in Dying as an End-of-Life Option
Illinois Legislative Campaign Overview
The Compassion & Choices Action Network Illinois team and the ACLU of Illinois partner in the Illinois End-of-Life Options Coalition. If you would like to get involved, please sign up here.
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Legislation to allow medical aid in dying, an option for mentally capable, terminally ill adults to peacefully end unbearable suffering, is supported by a wide majority of Illinois voters, regardless of political affiliation, disability, race, gender identity, age or religion.
Compassion & Choices today announced its first-ever Illinois Compassion in Nursing Award winners in honor of National Nurses Day on May 6, 2021. In addition to recognizing excellence in patient care, the licensed nurses were also honored for their compassion and support for patients at the end of life and for their commitment to the…
Compassion & Choices anunció hoy sus primeras ganadoras del premio Illinois Compassion in Nursing, al conmemorar el Día Nacional de la Enfermería que se celebrará el 6 de mayo. Además de reconocer la excelencia en los cuidados de pacientes, las enfermeras con licencia también fueron reconocidas por su compasión y apoyo a los pacientes en…
Happy National Healthcare Decisions Day! Today, April 16, we recognize National Healthcare Decisions Day. In our second year of a global pandemic, we have a unique opportunity to command more attention on the importance of advance care planning and the movement to expand and protect end-of-life options for everyone. Make sure the people you care…
Hello Friends of Compassion & Choices Illinois! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Illinois Compassionate Quarterly, an email publication written by, and for, friends of the rapidly growing end-of-life options movement in Illinois. You will find information about recent and upcoming statewide and national events, and learn about what Illinois activists are doing. You will…
La muerte reciente de José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, mejor conocido como José José, ha creado una gran confusión sobre el significado de la opción de cuidados de fin de vida llamada “hospicio”. Aunque se desconoce aún la causa oficial de la muerte del legendario cantante mexicano y si tenía o no directiva anticipada, se sabe…
The recent death of José Romulo Sosa Ortiz — better known as “José José” — has created a great confusion about the meaning of the enc-of-life care option called hospice. Although the official cause of the death of the legendary Mexican crooner is still unknown and whether he had an advance directive, news reports indicate…
Compassion & Choices CEO Kim Callinan writes in an opinion piece for the Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, “As baby boomers age, more and more people are having to navigate the onset of a serious diagnosis or plan for the inevitable end for themselves or a loved one. Unfortunately, a failure to plan is only the tip of…
Illinois advocate Jill Weinberg gravitated to the end-of-life choice movement for both professional and personal reasons. A lawyer who works in research at the American Bar Foundation and as a sociology professor at DePaul University in Chicago, her areas of focus are choice and consent in everyday life. And last September, Weinberg’s husband, Davin, died…
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